Emerging crisis in North Cachar Hills district of Assam
North Cachar Hills is one of the Hills districts of Assam. Yesterday some 12-odd armed miscreants entered a Dimasa village and opened indiscriminate fire at the villagers, who fled to nearby jungles for safety. After the firing in which one villager was reportedly injured, the miscreants also set ablaze about ten houses. Police arrived at the scene several hours after the incident. Although the motive behind the attack is yet to be ascertained, sources disclosed that the attack is a provocation to ethnic violence in the area. The vested interested parties and individuals who may be or may not be from the district want to fuel violence again.
Fabricating tension between the communities at this time is a design made by people to make the tribals poorer and poorer. The season is a season of cultivation, trouble at this time would lead the entire area to starvation. The indigenous communities of NC Hills irrespective of their community affiliation do not want conflicts again, 'we had enough and cannot afford another one any more', 'we are provoked again and again', 'please allow us to live', these are some of the voices of people from Haflong, Mahur, and Umrongso. We will suffer, as in the past ethnic conflicts are engineered for various reasons, as some say it is for economic gains, for training of security forces.
The incidents in this part of the country do not appear in the press neither in the electronic media nor print Medea. The blame game by the forces, state actors and non state actors continue as usual. The pricses of essential commodities have gone up, one Kg of rice is costing Rs.25 to 30 in some places of the district.
And yet a second incident took place on Friday, unidentified gunmen swooped down on Jorai village, about nine kilometers from district headquarters Haflong. Later, after the villagers fled their homes, the gunmen set the village on fire. Thirteen of the total 15 houses in the village were gutted in the incident.
In the last week of April 2009, unidentified gunmen burnt down 40 houses in a Dimasa village. Provocations, rumors, and innocent killings continue. Unless the communities and its leaders understand the cynical plans of people to destroy them, the situation will continue to become explosive.
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